I gotta say I’ve no idea how I managed to read your whole essay Thanks to either xmas or lockdown 2.1, or both!!!
When my training partner came back to that Ai Fukuhara (basically yet another Innerforce) and wasted 3 months of my efforts and his, I was particularly upset. We got together to the level of consistently counter top spin close to the table until we simply run out of breathe with his Stiga Allround Classic, then he threw all of that away. Not a single ball had consistent power. Worse, most of the time he just borrowed my power to do his weird things and when I fed him with floats, he’s effectively dead without knowing the differences. He has switched back to Allround Classic again but still dreaming of “If I can learn a way to tame that bat power”
I have no idea why it’s so hard for people to think “The bat is to unlock my power”, instead, all just think “I’ll tame the bat power. That’s control”.
To teetee, if you want to develop fast, you need a lot of belief that you can do a lot better than today (and it’s kinda hard once you’ve passed your peak year) even on the day that nothing clicks. Save your brain to think - “why the heck that kid’s ball is so difficult to power eventhough it’s neither spinny nor powerful. What’s wrong with my swing” - instead of “My Pg7 is so weak it cant power that slow stuff”. I’m not trying to phylosophical. It took me quite a lot of mental to switch from my training partner’s way of thinking to this. (And trust me, a lot of people don’t)
When my training partner came back to that Ai Fukuhara (basically yet another Innerforce) and wasted 3 months of my efforts and his, I was particularly upset. We got together to the level of consistently counter top spin close to the table until we simply run out of breathe with his Stiga Allround Classic, then he threw all of that away. Not a single ball had consistent power. Worse, most of the time he just borrowed my power to do his weird things and when I fed him with floats, he’s effectively dead without knowing the differences. He has switched back to Allround Classic again but still dreaming of “If I can learn a way to tame that bat power”
I have no idea why it’s so hard for people to think “The bat is to unlock my power”, instead, all just think “I’ll tame the bat power. That’s control”.
To teetee, if you want to develop fast, you need a lot of belief that you can do a lot better than today (and it’s kinda hard once you’ve passed your peak year) even on the day that nothing clicks. Save your brain to think - “why the heck that kid’s ball is so difficult to power eventhough it’s neither spinny nor powerful. What’s wrong with my swing” - instead of “My Pg7 is so weak it cant power that slow stuff”. I’m not trying to phylosophical. It took me quite a lot of mental to switch from my training partner’s way of thinking to this. (And trust me, a lot of people don’t)